Al, We Hardly Know Ye (Barf/Eric Alterman Alert!) (Algore Hypnotizes Chickens)

The Nation ^ | 2.12.2004 | Eric Alterman

[NYC GOP Chick]

I asked him and later demonstrating the technique he developed during his teenage years for hypnotizing chickens.

WTF?!

[Shermy]

What happened? For one thing there's been a dramatic change in the nature of what the philosopher Jürgen Habermas has described as the structure of the public forum--the way our political discourse takes place. It no longer operates as it once did. It is simply no longer as accessible to the vigorous and free exchange of ideas from individuals in the way those ideas were freely and vigorously exchanged during the period of our founding.

What happened? The internet. Now Gore's "authentic voice" can be vetted by the people, by themselves, and dissected to show his flip-flops and hypocrisy, foremostly about Iraq.

[Billthedrill]

It is simply no longer as accessible to the vigorous and free exchange of ideas from individuals in the way those ideas were freely and vigorously exchanged during the period of our founding.

Given that this appears on a website whose politics are anathema to Mr. Alterman in the first place, offered for comment, and will generate numerous replies from all over the world, I would classify this statement as quite the silliest and most blatantly mistaken thing I've read in a long time. I know that Gore made it, but Alterman repeated it. It is simply factually incorrect.

Political discourse has never been more widespread or accessible to the general public, never. There are, to be sure, those who have difficulties with the way things used to be, notably professional scribes such as Mr. Alterman, whose monopoly is long over. Tough.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

That is in reference to a 1999 Gore 60 Minutes Interview with Leslie Stahl.

Leslie Stahl: "I know something(about) you that most people don't probably know. I can't believe it but, you hypnotize chickens."

Gore: "I learned how to do that as a kid. I really did."

[Shermy]

and later demonstrating the technique he developed during his teenage years for hypnotizing chickens.

WTF?!

Eric Alterman = a Chicken. The article proves Gore's talent.

[GulliverSwift]

Gore summed it all up over the weekend of February 5-7 in a speech at a New School University conference on "Uses and Misuses of Fear" in our political system

This coming from a man who was the chief candidate for a political party who's favorite tactics involve reckless racism charges, lies about the environment, trumped up non-scandals (Bush AWOL), and is joined at the hip with tort lawyers whose sole purpose in life is to scare naive jurors and with a news media which specializes in scaring people on a daily basis, often of imaginary things.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

...The most doctrinaire postmodernist would have a hard time keeping up with the myriad literary inventions, textual subversions and convenient fictions necessary to sustain the ever-changing narrative...

Speaking of postmodernism and Algore, it's been noted by Lyotard that "class is fundamentally dead".  Thus, Marx promotes the use of subdialectic textual theory to challenge capitalism.  Derrida uses the term 'Marxist capitalism' to denote the role of the artist as participant.

In the works of Burroughs, a predominant concept is the concept of preconceptualist narrativity. But Baudrillard's critique of capitalist deconstructivism states that culture is capable of intentionality. Any number of discourses concerning Marxist capitalism may be found in Algore's closet.

CONTINUE...

[Tamzee]

[NYC GOP Chick]

Indeed, it does!

[GulliverSwift]

"Larry Flynt?An Unseemly Man, as he called his autobiography?was starting to look a little cuddly; as cuddly as an admitted onetime chicken fornicator can be."

http://www.bunnyranch.net/news/larryflynt.htm

(Don't visit the home page, fyi)

[anncoulteriscool]

****Washington Post's Ceci Connolly--who spread false stories****

LOL! When this 'writer" bashes Ceci, you know he's fallen off a cliff. She generally seems to shift to the left whenever I see her.

[NYC GOP Chick]

later demonstrating the technique he developed during his teenage years for hypnotizing chickens.

I suppose that explains how Alphagore got the 'rat nomination in '00...

[okie01]

So, according to Alterman, though in his twilight, Algore has become "A Giant": A Philosopher King Bestride The Political Intellect, literally The Great White Father Of The Left-Wing Savages.

Who knew...???

Eric needs to hang up his hookah and seek professional help...

[NYC GOP Chick]

Would it be possible to add the following to the end of the title of this thread?

(Algore Hypnotizes Chickens)

Thanks!

[Dan from Michigan]

I asked him and later demonstrating the technique he developed during his teenage years for hypnotizing chickens

I've never even heard of that, and I know a few farmers.

For some odd reason, all I can think of here is Rocky Balboa chasing the chicken.

[stands2reason]

Well the Elitists never had problems before maintaining their "vigorous and free exchange of ideas" until the common vulgar masses got involved with their internet and their talk radio. (/patrician sneer)

[stands2reason]

Derrida

*spit*

[okie01]

So this is what passes for rigorous intellectual thought and penetrating political comment on the left these days?

Eric Alterman on Algore, An Underappreciated Giant Of Our Times...The Wooly Mammoth Of The Left.

The bottom of the barrel is nigh...

I am intermittently, and uncontrollably, LOL over the unintentional and ludicrous hilarity of this article.

[dennisw]

GoreBasm alert!!